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IAPR TC-11 Newsletter
September 2015
http://www.iapr-tc11.org
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* Message from the Editor
* Dates 'n' Deadlines
- DAS 2016, Santorini, Greece September 25 /
(http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) October 2
* New and Recently Published Datasets
* Call for Papers:
- 5th Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2016)
October 23-26, 2016, Shenzhen, China April 30, 2016
- IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems: Special Issue on "Drawing
and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems" October 15
- 12th IAPR Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2016)
April 11-14, Santorini, Greece (repost)
* Call for Hosting Proposals for the TC10/TC11 Summer School (repost)
=> Deadline Extended to October 15
* Call for Dataset Submissions
* Call for Contributions
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========== Message from the Editor =========================================
Welcome to the September edition of our newsletter. After having returned
from a successful ICDAR 2015 in Nancy, and having seen the presentations
for ICDAR 2017 in Kyoto as well as ICDAR 2019 in Brisbane, some of you might
have wondered why they stumbled across an announcement of some ICDAR 2016.
First of all let me assure you: this is not the real thing. Secondly, however,
it is not just a simple error or joke but seems to be an intentional fraud
which also happened to other major conferences from which some people seem to
steal not only the name and acronym but also the program committee (without
the people actually knowing) in order to make money wity fake versions of the
real conferences. Therefore, always consult your TC-11 newsletter and you will
be informed about the conferences and events that *really* matter to the
research community concerned with Reading Systems.
In this September edition you will find the Calls for Papers for ICFHR 2016
which will be held in Shenzhen, China and for the Special Issue on "Drawing
and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems" of the IEEE Trans. on
Human-Machine Systems. Furthermore, I would like to again draw your attention
to the Call for Papers for DAS 2016 and the Call for Hosting Proposals for the
TC10/TC11 Summer School.
Gernot A. Fink, IAPR TC-11 Newsletter Editor
Gernot.Fink@udo.edu
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========== Dates 'n' Deadlines =============================================
Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission):
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* DAS 2016, Santorini, Greece April 11-14, 2016 September 25 /
(http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) October 2
* CVPR 2016, Las Vegas, United States June 26-July 1, 2016 November 6
(http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr16/)
* ICFHR 2016, Shenzen, China October 23-26, 2016 April 30, 2016
(http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016)
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* ACPR 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia November 3-6, 2015 - passed -
(http://acpr2015.org/)
* ICCV 2015, Santiago, Chile December 13-16, 2015 - passed -
(http://pamitc.org/iccv15/)
* DRR 2016, San Francisco, USA Feb 15-18, 2016 - passed -
(http://drr2016.loria.fr)
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========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ======================
For a list of all datasets available visit:
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets_List
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========== Call for Papers: ICFHR 2016 =====================================
15th International Conference on Frontiers in
Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2016)
Shenzhen, China
October 23-26, 2016
http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016
The International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR),
formerly called International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
(IWFHR), is the most important event in the field of handwriting recognition.
The aim of this conference is to bring together international experts from
academia and industry to share their experiences and to promote research and
development in all aspects of handwriting recognition and applications.
ICFHR is a major event sponsored by the IAPR Technical Committee TC11 (Reading
Systems). The series of the ICFHR conferences is a continuation of the ten
IWFHRs (Montreal 1990, Chateau de Bonas 1991, Buffalo 1993, Taipei 1994,
Colchester 1996, Taejon 1998, Amsterdam 2000, Niagara on the Lake 2002, Tokyo
2004, La Baule 2006). Previous ICFHR conferences were held in Montreal 2008,
Kolkata 2010, Bari 2012, and Crete 2014.
The 15th ICFHR (ICFHR2016) is to be held in Shenzhen, China, and be co-hosted
by the Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) and the
Shenzhen Graduate School of Tsinghua University.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Character and Handwriting Recognition
- Online Handwriting Recognition
- Symbol, Equation, Sketch and Drawing Recognition
- Handwritten Document Processing and Understanding
- Language Models in Handwriting Recognition
- Handwritten Databases and Digital Libraries
- Information Extraction & Retrieval
- Document Characterization
- Form Processing
- Word Spotting
- Bank-Check Processing
- Historical Document Processing
- Forensic Studies and Security Issues
- Writer Verification and Identification
- Performance Enhancement and System Evaluation
- Electronic Ink and Pen-Based Systems
- Web-Based Applications
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit full-length paper of not more than Six (6) pages
in IEEE conference format. Papers must describe original work on any of the
ICFHR related topics. The papers should be submitted via the online submission
system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfhr2016
Important Dates:
Paper submission: April 30, 2016
Acceptance notification: July 15, 2016
Camera-ready submission: August 15, 2016
Committees
Honorary Chair:
Ching Y. Suen (Canada)
General Chairs:
Cheng-Lin Liu (China)
Youbin Chen (China)
Program Chairs:
Umapada Pal (India)
Mohamed Cheriet (Canada)
Simone Marinai (Italy)
Tutorial&Workshop Chairs:
Michael Blumenstein (Australia)
Marcus Liwicki (Germany)
Competition Chairs:
Apostolos Antonacopoulos (UK)
Volker Märgner (Germany)
Publicity Chairs:
Seiichi Uchida (Japan)
Venu Govindaraju (USA)
Jean-Marc Ogier (France)
Organizing Chair:
Zhenhua Guo (China)
Publication Chair:
Xu-Yao Zhang (China)
Secretariat:
icfhr2016@nlpr.ia.ac.cn
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========== Call for Papers: IEEE THMS Special Issue ========================
CALL FOR PAPERS of SPECIAL ISSUE
on "Drawing and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems"
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
There has been significant progress in the automatic processing of handwriting
and drawing, especially in computational models to generate, analyze and
recognize pen tip and gesture trajectories in various applications. While it
was thought that manuscript production would decrease with the dissemination of
computers, today the trend is reversed with the boom of new touch and pen-based
interactive devices. Progress in automatic processing of handwriting and
drawing, both on-line and off-line, opens real opportunities to produce a true
"graphonomics" continuum from paper to digital practices. One key challenge is
to bring pattern recognition into reality with applications, taking advantage
of the implicit or explicit human-machine interactions.
In this special issue, we invite new and original scientific work taking into
account the user in the drawing and handwriting processes in terms of
usability, efficiency, collaboration, interaction, cross-learning, and related
topics. Consequently, papers are solicited that cross the various communities
studying these important and complex human-machine relationships in
"graphonomics" fields: pattern recognition, humanities, neuroscience, arts " by
considering human centered point of views to design, model and test new
advances in these research areas.
TOPICS OF INTEREST include (but are not limited to):
* Pen and touch-based human-machine interactions with gesture or drawing
interpretation.
* Human-machine cooperation in education: semi-automated handwriting
evaluations; teaching and learning handwriting based on children-machine
interaction.
* Adaptive, incremental, evolving learning approaches for: handwriting
recognition (off-line and on- line), writer identification and recognition,
signature verification.
* Document processing based on human-machine interaction loop: historical
document, sketches
* Human-machine cooperation in medical applications based on handwriting
analysis, motor control, learning and adaptation of writing and drawing
movements in neuroscience
* Usability, efficiency, collaboration, interaction experiments for
applications to evaluate human- machine cooperation in the graphonomics
field.
* Interaction with mobile devices using drawing and handwriting.
* Multi-language handwriting processing.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission due date October 15, 2015
Completion of first round of reviews January 15, 2016
Revised manuscript due date April 1, 2016
Final decision notification May 1, 2016
Final version of the manuscript due June 1, 2016
Papers should be submitted to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/thms with a cover
letter including the statement "This manuscript is submitted for the special
issue on Drawing and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems". For
detailed submission information, please refer to "Information for Authors" at
http://www.ieee-smc.org/publications/thms-info-for-authors.pdf
GUEST EDITORS:
Eric Anquetil, IRISA Laboratory, INSA de Rennes, eric.anquetil@irisa.fr
Giuseppe Pirlo, Universita degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro",
giuseppe.pirlo@uniba.it
Rejean Plamondon, Laboratoire Scribens, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal,
rejean.plamondon@polymtl.ca
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========== Call for Papers: DAS 2016 =======================================
12th IAPR
International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems
DAS 2016
April 11-14, Santorini, Greece
http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016
DAS 2016 is the 12th edition of the 100% participation single-track IAPR
sponsored workshop focusing on system-level issues and approaches in document
analysis and recognition. The workshop comprises invited speaker presentations,
oral, poster, tutorial and demo sessions as well as working group discussions.
DAS 2016 will be organized on the island of Santorini, Greece. Santorini was
created from a volcanic eruption that left it with volcanic cliffs overlooking
a black and red coast, dazzling against the turquoise Mediterranean. Santorini
is one of the most popular, beautiful and unique islands in the world since it
combines a cosmopolitan atmosphere, spectacular scenery of deep blue sea and
whitewashed houses, breathtaking sunsets, ancient sites, world-class
restaurants and an active volcano.
SUBMISSION TYPES
DAS2016 will include both long and short papers, posters and demonstrations of
working or prototype systems. All submissions will undergo a rigorous review
process with a minimum of 3 reviews considering the originality of work, the
quality of research or analysis of experience, the relevance to document
analysis systems, and quality of presentation of ideas.
**Full Papers**
Full papers should describe complete works of original research. Authors are
invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being
considered in another forum, up to 6 pages length.
**Short Papers**
Short papers provide an opportunity to report on research in progress, to
present novel positions on document analysis systems. Authors may submit short
papers (up to 2 pages in length). Short papers will also undergo review and
will appear in an extra booklet, not in the official DAS2016 proceedings.
**Demonstrations**
DAS2016 seeks public demonstrations of novel systems, to be presented to the
workshop as a whole during breaks between paper sessions. Prospective
demonstrators should submit a two-page summary of the system to be
demonstrated. Demonstration proposals will undergo review and summaries of
accepted demonstrations will appear in the extra DAS2016 booklet, as in the
case of short papers.
IMPORTANT DATES
**Tutorials proposals**
Proposals due Sep 04, 2015
**Regular Papers**
Abstracts due Sep 25, 2015
Papers due Oct 02, 2015
Decision notification Dec 07, 2015
Camera ready due Jan 08, 2016
Early registration Jan 08, 2016
**Short Papers**
Papers due Jan 08, 2016
Decision notification Feb 08, 2016
Camera ready due Feb 22, 2016
TOPICS & TECHNOLOGIES
* Algorithms for graphics recognition
* Applications
* Authoring, annotation, and presentation systems
* Camera-based document image analysis
* Document analysis for digital humanities
* Document analysis for mobile devices
* Document analysis for the internet
* Document analysis systems for libraries and archives
* Document databases and digital libraries
* Document image analysis (DIA) systems
* Document image watermarking
* Document retrieval systems
* Document understanding
* Forensic document analysis
* Historical document analysis
* Information extraction from document images
* Multilingual document analysis
* Multimedia document analysis
* Page layout analysis
* Pen-based user interface
* Performance evaluation
COMMITTEES
**General Chairs**
Apostolos Antonacopoulos, UK
Basilis Gatos, Greece
**Program Chairs**
Michael Blumenstein, Australia
Josep LLadós, Spain
Dan Lopresti, USA
**Tutorial Chairs**
Dimosthenis Karatzas, Spain
Cheng-Lin Liu, China
**Publicity Chairs**
Gernot A. Fink, Germany
Marco Büchler, Germany
Clemens Neudecker, Germany
**Publications Chair**
Stefan Pletschacher, UK
**Organising Committee**
Christian Clausner, UK
George Louloudis, Greece
Christos Papadopoulos, UK
Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Greece
**Program Committee**
[see the DAS 2016 website]
CONTACT
das2016@primaresearch.org
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========== Call for Hosting Proposals: TC-10 / TC-11 Summer School 2016 ====
** Deadline EXTENDED to October 15 **
Call for Hosting Proposals for the TC10/TC11 Summer School
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Part of the mission of IAPR TC11 and TC10 is to promote high quality
educational activities related to Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition.
Responding to this need, TC10 and TC11 are soliciting proposals for the
organisation of the first "IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer School" during 2016.
The "IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer School" is intended to become the prime
educational activity of IAPR TC11 (Reading Systems) and TC10 (Graphics
Recognition). The School is meant to be a training activity where
participants are exposed to the latest trends and techniques of Reading
Systems and Graphics Recognition.
The aim of the School is to provide both an objective and clear overview and
an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art research in selected topics of
Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition. The School should aim to provide a
stimulating opportunity for young researchers and Ph.D. students in the
field.
Individuals and groups who are interested in Reading Systems and Graphics
Recognition are invited to submit proposals for organizing and hosting the
2016 IAPR TC10 / TC11 Summer School.
It is expected that proposers familiarise themselves with the guidelines for
organising the School first, to fully plan their bid. The Guidelines can be
found at the TC11 Web site:
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Guidelines_for_Organising_and_B
idding_to_Host_the_TC10_/_TC11_Summer_School
The submission of a bid implies full agreement with the rules and procedures
for organising the School. Proposals should be sent to:
Dimosthenis Karatzas, TC-11 Vice Chair, dimos@cvc.uab.es and Alicia Fornes,
TC-10 Education Officer afornes@cvc.uab.es
The deadline for submitting written proposals is October 15.
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========== Call for Dataset Submissions ====================================
We would like to remind you that the TC10 and TC11 welcome contributions of
new datasets or other resources related to the community. We would like to
particularly encourage authors of articles that introduce new datasets,
software or other material to submit such material to TC11 for hosting.
Please check the TC11 site on information about how to submit datasets for
archiving (
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets) also feel free to
contact Marcus Liwicki, the TC11 dataset curator, for any doubts you
might have on the process.
Marcus Liwicki, TC-11 Dataset Curator
liwicki@dfki.uni-kl.de
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========== Call for Contributions ==========================================
This newsletter needs your support in order to provide useful information
to the TC11 community. Therefore, please contribute relevant news by sending
a short notice to the newsletter editor Gernot A. Fink .
Such news could be the obvious announcements of conferences and workshops,
job opportunities, reports on past conferences, book reviews, or anything
that might be of interest to a wider audience involved in the construction of
reading systems.
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